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Discussion on: You should probably learn TypeScript

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Nasidul Islam

I was a skeptic of TS before I tried it. I always wondered why it was necessary - why couldn't we achieve what it is trying to achieve with just better checks and balances in vanilla JS?

Now that I've dabbled in to it - even though I'm still a noob, I see its value. I work at a place that, I would say, has bigger than average turnover ration. By that I mean, devs are frequently walking in and out through the door. For a codebase that doesn't have too many seasoned devs, TS has been the oasis in a desert